Indian BNPL firm Axio lands $20m equity investment from Amazon fund
The Bengaluru-based fintech claims to have raised $137 million in equity to date.
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Amazon set to roll out palm payment processing across all US Whole Foods stores
The Amazon One technology allows users to complete transactions using just their hand.
Carlsberg Bank – probably the best digital bank in the world
Banks need to identify new segments and go beyond banking
Emirates NBD builds AI-enabled bank with AWS
The Middle-Eastern bank is applying tech to customer sevice.
Amazon Pay launches Android P2P payments in India
Users can pay Amazon delivery associates from their bank accounts via UPI QR codes.
Standard Bank moves over to AWS
All its workloads, including its customer facing and core banking applications.
UK pressures tech titans to face competition
The nation’s rules must be updated for the digital age.
Mexico mulls mobile payments system with Amazon
Nation’s central bank in talks with tech titan.
Mastercard and AWS grow payments for supply chain
Firms use digital identity, payments and blockchain for improved capabilities.
Coinbase acquires API data enabler Blockspring
San Francisco-based start-up will still operate independently.
AWS releases data back-up services
To help meet compliance requirements and automate processes.
Top ten fintech infographics in 2018
Let the visuals take over in this cool collection of infographics.
Openbank takes off with AWS
Moving the entire front-end digital bank systems to the cloud.
Personal finance app Fintonic links up with Amazon
“A new way of cooperating between the fintech sector and online distributors.”
Simple appoints former Amazon exec as CEO
David Hijirida is replacing Dickson Chu who was temporarily working as the interim CEO.
Toronto receives $1.4bn tech investment in September
The tech ecosystem in Toronto is growing – and fintech is sure to follow.
Top fintech stories this week – 17 August 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Amazon takes UK insurers on comparison ride
A price comparison site is rumoured to be in the works.
11:FS Podcast: death is no excuse
11:FS Fintech Insider podcast featuring FinTech Futures’ Tanya Andreasyan.
Amex and Amazon ally in co-brand card game
One of the GAFA gang reveals its paytech plan.
Amazon eyes PayPal’s crown with Alexa payments platform
E-commerce titan could be taking on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.
Infographic: how Amazon wants to control your life
A compilation of “ten ways of how Amazon is going to own everything you use”.
Top fintech stories this week – 9 March 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Amazon checks out JP Morgan over checking accounts product
Don’t be an Amazon worrier – this is a potential opportunity.
Infographic: all things Amazon
Check out this nifty infographic created by 16best.net about all things Amazon.
Amazon teams with Bank of America for lendtech leap
Looking to expand its lendtech programme for small businesses that sell on Amazon’s websites.
Industry alignment or industry confusion – what is a financial institution?
How industry labels and market segment boxes are no longer so revealing.
Amazon, Warren Buffett and JP Morgan Chase create new healthcare firm
The company is so new it doesn’t have a name.
Amazon taps 20 locations as finalists for second HQ
It’s the hottest competition since “The Bachelor”.
NAB asks Alexa for hands-free banking
Users can now perform tasks such as requesting their account balance or getting details on their latest deposits.
Are Amazon and Salesforce ditching Oracle?
If you say mean things about the other children, they won’t want to play with you.
Fintech funding round-up: 19 December 2017
Features Softbank, Lemonade, Amazon, Capital Float and Delio.
Hyperwallet now supports payouts from Amazon’s Australia marketplace
‘Tis the season for online shopping (and selling).
Payments round-up: 30 November 2017
We did say there will be no quiet days. Coming straight after yesterday’s (29 November) action, we bring another payments round-up. Features Interac, nanopay, Remitr, ADGM, Nordea, Nets, Facebook and Amazon.
Amazon selling part of China cloud business for $300m
Amazon is selling off a portion of its cloud computing business in China to a local partner, but the company still plans to compete in what is a growing market for cloud-based services and infrastructure, reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister publication). Beijing Sinnet Technology will buy a portion of Amazon’s cloud business for […]
Microsoft growing explosively, but Amazon retains huge cloud lead
Microsoft is the fastest-growing of the four big US cloud service providers, with revenue up 90% year-over-year in the third quarter, writes Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology‘s sister publication).
For Amazon and Microsoft, the cloud keeps giving
Someday, the consistent growth in sales for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure will have to stop, writes Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister publication). “Someday” isn’t today.
What adds up to $95 billion? Q3 for Google, Microsoft and Amazon
$43.7 billion for Amazon, $27.7 billion for Google and $24.5 billion for Microsoft. And it hasn’t even hit the Christmas sales period yet.
Amazon is latest focus of Europe’s tax raid on US tech companies
The European Commission (EC) has ruled that Luxembourg illegally let Amazon off €250 million of taxes and must now get them back, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication). This is the latest round of a general purge by the EC of European countries effectively bribing US tech companies to use them as their European hub by dangling […]
Alexa’s footprints are starting to appear all over the place
While Google is doing its impression of a petulant child, storming home from the park with its football tucked under its arm by barring Amazon Echo Show access to YouTube, Amazon has drafted a host of reinforcements for its Alexa offensive, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication). For the most part, the majority of the news […]
